President Trump is raging at GOP Senator Thom Tillis for telling the truth about the Senate version of his budget bill, which could knock 10 million people off Medicaid. Trump threatened him with a primary—whereupon he announced his retirement. Tillis has since been sharply criticizing the bill, noting it will bump 600,000 people from Medicaid in North Carolina. This reveals that when Trump vowed not to cut Medicaid, he was lying. But it also shows his much-advertised vow to remake the GOP as working class has proven a sham. By threatening Tillis, Trump has only drawn more attention to Tillis’s truth-telling about his swindle of MAGA voters. And as Trump’s own media allies are warning, this could put the Senate in play for Democrats. We talked to New Republic staff writer Timothy Noah, author of a new piece on GOP lying about the bill. He explains why Trump’s Medicaid cuts are so indefensible, how they expose the core of Trump’s “working-class GOP” scam, and what it all means for Democratic hopes of regaining power. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.
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Trump’s Fury at Thom Tillis Backfires, Wrecking His Vile Medicaid Scam
As Trump banishes Senator Tillis from the GOP for daring to tell the truth abut his policies, a writer who tracks GOP lies about the party’s economic agenda explains how this blows up one of his biggest swindles.
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